This was the week that ended 2024 and started 2025, and as it clearly shows, I spent half of it trying to catch up with the best-rated films of the ending year, and the second half in ‘whatever’ mode.

I’ve recently re-watched the excellent series The Good Place, which in its later seasons points out how hard it is to live ethically in modern society.
I was reminded of it, recently, as I mentioned to my family my attempt to move away from big tech companies that are actively being evil.

Twas the night before Christmas,
when on my small screen
some creature was killing, all ghastly and mean

The temporary sculpture, by designer François Schuiten and sculptor Pierre Matter, erupts from the pavement in front of the Palais de Justice in Brussels. Inspired by Jules Verne’s works, it will move later this year to its final destination place, Amiens, where the author died 120 years ago.

I have now published several posts detailing the summary of 2024 in different areas, and I saved the one about my most common non-work activity for last. Of course, usual readers know that I have been publishing a post each week, since the end of March, listing the films I’ve watched and adding a short comment. So, it’s not like I - and readers interested in this subject - don’t know what kind of year it has been. Still, I thought it would be nice, at the end of 2024, to corroborate my certainties with some data.

Travelling in 2024 has been difficult. Or, to better put it; the choice of destinations has been difficult…